SOCIALISTS' DEMONSTRATION.
A DIVERSION IN LONDON. " Received lath, 11.20 p.m. London, July 15. Three thousand members of the Independent Labor party and Social Democratic Federation held a demonstration on Sunday in Trafalgar Square against the conclusion of any agreement between Britain and Russia. The speakers, who included Mr Will Thome, member of the House of Common*, R. B. Cunningham Graham. Mrs Despard-, a prominent leader of the woman's suffrage, and Henry Mayers Hyndman, the well-known writer on" socialism, uedounced Sir Edward Grey, and the King and Sir Edward Grey, ami pleaded on behalf of Russian freedom.
Jack Williams, unemployed leader, induced the crowd to demonstrate at Whitehall. The police preveiled Williams climbing a parapet, aud thev seized several red flags. Hyndman was rolled in the mud, and Mrs Despair was slightly "injured during the suffle. " A few arrests were made, including two Russians. The disturbances lasted 20 minutes.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 3
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148SOCIALISTS' DEMONSTRATION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 3
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